1981 – Bob Marley dies of cancer in a Miami hospital at the age of 36.

1985 - 55 people died when a flash fire swept a packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.1985 – “Crazy for You” by Madonna topped the charts and remained there for one week.

1990 - NY Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt1994 - Arkansas put two convicted murder­ers to death; it was the first time a state executed two people on the same day since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to restore the death penalty in 1976.

2006 - Former heavy­weight champion Floyd Pat­terson died in New Paltz, N.Y.; he was 71.